Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192572 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 590
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
Survival rates are widely used to compare quality of health care. In this paper we introduce post-illness employment as a supplemental indicator of successful treatment of serious diseases. Utilizing rich register based data on cancer patients we document substantial differences across Norwegian hospital catchment areas with respect to employment five years after diagnosis. Conventional quality indicators based on survival rates indicate smaller differences. The two sets of indicators are only weakly correlated, suggesting that they capture different parts of the quality distribution, and that using only one of them may be insufficient.
Subjects: 
Quality indicators
health sector
survival
employment
cancer
JEL: 
I11
I12
J21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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